Uxenden Hall

Coordinates: 51°20′31″N 0°10′27″W / 51.3420°N 0.1743°W / 51.3420; -0.1743 Uxenden Hall or Uxendon Hall was an English manor house near Harrow-on-the-Hill. In the sixteenth century it was inhabited by the family of Jerome Bellamy.[1] The family would, in 1586, shelter the rebel Anthony Babington here, following the plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England.[2]

The hall's name was first recorded in 1257 as Woxindon, meaning "Wixan's Hill", and is thus related to Uxbridge. The Wixan were a 7th-century Saxon tribe from Lincolnshire who also began to settle in what became Middlesex.[3]

The hall stood near where Preston Road tube station now stands, and is preserved in the street names "Uxendon Crescent" and "Uxendon Hill".

References

  1. ↑ "Robert Southwell, Venerable". The Original Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
  2. ↑ Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1993). The London Encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 638. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
  3. ↑ P. H. Reaney (1969). The Origin of English Place Names. Routledge and Kegan Paul. p. 103. ISBN 0-7100-2010-4.


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